The SPÖ is in first place in polls. You didn’t have to do much for it. Scandals and government failures have swept the party to the top. But the Social Democrats need to think about their own weaknesses. And tell us honestly about your future plans.
1. “Do nothing and everything is done!” said the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu. Chat cases, corruption allegations and series of layoffs in the ÖVP, as well as terrible crisis communications by green health ministers are helping the SPÖ without their intervention. Pamela Rendi Wagner & Co. can behave inconspicuously. The crucial question is, of course, whether people would rather not work with the ÖVP today than tomorrow.
2. “Look me in the eye!” Alfred Gusenbauer used a quote from the movie Casablanca on television in 2006 as head of the SPÖ. Except he’s not Humphrey Bogart. Wolfgang Bowl was also his counterpart instead of Ingrid Bergmann. Gusenbauer made no declaration of love to him, but accused him of poor behavior. Like now the SPÖ of the ÖVP. But why then did the Reds for decades forge a coalition with the Blacks, making pacts and dividing the country in a quasi-partisan fashion?
3. “I need a judge!” That is a short-lived difference with the ÖVP. Prosecutors are investigating corruption crimes against the Turkish Federal Party and several of its former bosses. The great scandals of the SPÖ were long ago. But besides criminal law, a question for all Red politicians: can you guarantee us with a deep look in the eye that in your own sphere of influence there have been and have not been job scams, questionable award of contracts and other careless matters? no
4. “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are!” The ÖVP is the nemesis of the SPÖ. Oh well. Historically, the political camps came to blows in February 1934. Today, reds’ willingness to mate with blacks may be greater than ever. At the federal level, a red-and-black government would be most likely after new elections. In Tyrol, Georg Dornauer, state chairman of the SPÖ, ruled out three-way variants with the Greens and Neos. That means the desire for a partnership with the ÖVP.
5. “Whatever you say, you have to slap the blacks on the mouth!” In non-Viennese, there are similar rude expressions in the German language about filling the mouth. This is how the SPÖ has treated the ÖVP for generations. But the above points reinforce the statement that it is just media theatre. To negotiate all kinds of things behind the scenes for our mutual benefit.
6. “Don’t run to where the ball is, but where it can go.” The SPÖ ignores this football wisdom. She prefers to play pack football and scold about what everyone is scolding about. About the government, of course. Which is admittedly tempting. However, the SPÖ has lost more than a million votes to the FPÖ in recent decades. A plan for a return? no.
7. “Go to the Schmied and not the Schmiedl!” The SPÖ is currently creating a – not unjustified – mood of social disappointment and frustration. The black ÖVP does the same with the refugee problem. However, social dropouts with fear of strangers choose blue. So if a really hard winter comes with economic hardship, the FPÖ will soon be in first place in the polls instead of the SPÖ.
8. “One doesn’t trust anyone who brags!” That too would come from Lao Tzu. The SPÖ likes to preach many things that felt centuries ago. Parties are not chosen for actual or embellished past records. More important is a comprehensive and long-term concept for the future. The problem with this: The SPÖ’s main constituency is pensioners. Which is not a bad thing, only younger generations want a lot more change.
9. “Problems can never be solved with the same mindset that created them,” said Albert Einstein. Now the SPÖ wants to win back some 200,000 votes it lost to the Greens in 2019. Naturally, the focus is on the environment. Here the SPÖ is not very convincing if it thinks too much about those of its – mostly older – voters, for whom, for example, cars were part of the economic miracle and are a status symbol.
10. “Not every victory is a victory,” said German Social Democrat Erhard Eppler. Now the SPÖ is likely to make a profit in the upcoming state elections in Tyrol and elsewhere. You, or at least the Federal Party, are hesitant to give a clear numerical answer to the question of election goals. Why just why?
Source: Krone
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